Street in the Sunlight, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Street in the Sunlight
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Karl Schmidt-Rottluff

Street in the Sunlight, 1912


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440 x 592 mm
Druckstock
234 x 304 mm
Physical Description
Woodcut on laid paper
Inventory Number
65983
Object Number
65983 D
Acquisition
Acquired in 1948 as a donation from the heirs of the Carl Hagemann estate
Status
Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

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About the Work

Light effects were a recurring concern of Schmidt-Rottluff’s. In woodcut, they can be depicted by means of harsh black-and-white contrasts. To capture the impression of a village suffused with dazzling sunlight, the artist reduced the houses to sparse contours. Only the sky is boldly segmented by dark clusters of lines – the rays of the sun, made visible as ‘streamlines’.

About the Acquisition

From 1900 onwards, the Frankfurt chemist and industrialist Carl Hagemann (1867‒1940) assembled one of the most important private collections of modern art. It included numerous paintings, drawings, watercolours and prints, especially by members of the artist group “Die Brücke”. After Carl Hagemann died in an accident during the Second World War, the then Städel director Ernst Holzinger arranged for Hagemann’s heirs to evacuate his collection with the museum’s collection. In gratitude, the family donated almost all of the works on paper to the Städel Museum in 1948. Further donations and permanent loans as well as purchases of paintings and watercolours from the Hagemann estate helped to compensate for the losses the museum had suffered in 1937 as part of the Nazi’s “Degenerate Art” campaign. Today, the Hagemann Collection forms the core of the Städel museum’s Expressionist collection.

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10.09.2024